There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The property of power is to protect.

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Only the educated are free.